In a public letter to the Prime Minister of the country, Edi Rama, the moderator of the show "Open", Eni Vasili has demanded that the situation in television studios be returned as before as keeping them in isolation no longer serves anyone.
He further recalls the case of doctor Roland Xhaxho, who was infected, adding that a journalist is endangered in the same way as one or three people.
"A journalist in the studio is equally endangered with one or three people present there. Personally, it would have been enough for me to be infected by Dr. Roland Xhaxho, who certainly did not know that he was infected when he came to Open. The fact showed that Dr. Xhaxho did not infect us, nor me, nor the staff of Open who had contacts with him in those days. Studios are large spaces that surpass any supermarket or tailor shop ", writes the journalist, among other things, where she asks the studios to return their freedom.
Open letter to Prime Minister Edi Rama
By Eni Vasili
Dear Mr. Prime Minister! Next Monday will be 9 weeks from March 9, the day when the first two cases of Covid-19 were discovered in Albania. These 9 weeks, as long as 9 months, generated new realities for many of us, realities from which we will probably not escape for a long time. We will not be able to separate quickly for fear that a redeemed gesture may make us ill or that a hug may be a curse. In these 50 days and more, we have learned to sacrifice differently, not to be afraid of ourselves, and to survive insecurity.
Full thanks and humility will never be enough for doctors, nurses, sanitary workers and law enforcement, but these extraordinary weeks of human experience of the battle for life would not have been won without the media and television studios, which brought them all together. in the darkest days, where death and terror from it cast shadows over our heads. Together we learned from the beginning how to wash our hands, how to sneeze, but most of all how to give strength to each other. This was done by hundreds of extraordinary Albanians, doctors but not only, all over the world who ran to the windows on the "fairies", to share information, experience and solidarity.
It was done by the infectious disease doctors who patiently explained everything they knew and learned, and they themselves, day after day, made those journalists who did not retreat to warm homes, but remained in office full of dignity and concern for themselves and others.
And while the economy is reopening and the movement is liberalizing, keeping TV studios in isolation no longer serves anyone. A studio journalist is equally at risk with one or three people present. Personally, it would have been enough for me to be infected by Dr. Roland Xhaxho, who certainly did not know that he was infected when he came to Open.
The fact showed that Dr. Xhaxho did not infect us, nor me, nor the staff of Open who had contacts with him in those days. The studios are large spaces that surpass any supermarket where people flock, are as large in square meters as a tailor shop, with the only difference that inside there are no more than 5 -6 people and not 600. Even the Open studio it's almost as big as the hall of Parliament!
It is neither a luxury nor a careless request, because I am responsible for the dangers to myself and others. But the service we can do to public opinion and debate by resuming normal life in the studio is greater than preoccupation with ourselves.
Technology has helped us in times of emergency, but the difficulties of internet connections have rightly exhausted the viewer. Small skype or zoom windows do not always technically convey the message to viewers and the concentration time is shortened more and more. The right to public debate must be returned to the public and television studios must be given back their freedom! #jetodhefolilire
